Here are some news about the progress of the survey. Thanks to you we have reached the number of 360 participants. We set a minimal goal of 500 answers. We hope you will continue to help us to reach our goal .

Hello there.
I should have shared the results of this survey before but better late than never .
I am going to give you the main trends we noticed thanks to the +700 answers we received. In the interest of being interesting I am only mentioning figures I have found interesting. If you want more details about anything, please let me know.
MISC :
- First and it’s not really related to our topic, we noticed gamers can get very serious when they talk about something they care about. We’ve spotted only 5 trolls among all the answers and I found these guys cute because they took the pain of going through all the questions to let us know at the final one that “this survey was a waste of time”. I have no doubt about that for them and especially for this guy who answered “penis” wherever he could. ^_^
- Gamers are vocal ! About 3/5 of answers included comments for open questions. That is a lot more than traditional surveys get as far as I remember from intelligence marketing classes.
AVERAGE AGE :
- 24 years old
SCHOOLING :
- Only 9% of answers had not completed any form of schooling but for a good reason : they are too young ! These 9% are only 17 yo in average.
- 46% of answers had completed at least a bachelor degree. 2% are Phd holders.
AVERAGE WEEKLY GAMING TIME :
- is 17.4 hours per week.
- The older you get, the less you play :-/
- DLC buyers play longer than any other “group”.
AVERAGE NUMBER OF GAMES PURCHASED PER YEAR :
- 10 ! But I feel a little bit “meh” about this question. Games come in so many different forms nowadays. We should have asked in the mean time what money they spend for them.
- Still, top 10% buyers buy a whooping 32 games per year.
- Bottom 10% only buy less than one (0.7). Interestingly these guys are the less likely to complete entirely the survey.
PREORDERERS & ASSOCIATED BONUS :
- Only 48% of answers admit having preordered a game. Same ratio as those who do not care about preorder bonus.
- Only 13% of answers found theses bonuses important or very important.
DLCs :
- 35% of answers never buy DLCs while 2% buy them for every single game they have.
SEQUELs, SPIN-OFFs, REBOOTs and REMAKEs :
- These figure do not change much depending on the group we isolated.
- 90% bought a sequel, 68% a spin-off, 51% a reboot and 31% a remake
FACTORS WHEN BUYING A GAME :
- Gameplay comes first (44%) then story/background (31%). Only 3% care first about graphics, 5% about the lasting appeal.
- The least important factor for 48% is the publisher.
STORIES OVER MULTIPLE GAMES :
- 64% like it, only 6% do not like, the others just do not care.
eSports :
- 38% of answers follow eSports. The younger you are the most likely you are to do so.
INDIE GAMES :
- 69% of gamers have already bought an indie game but only 20% have financially supported a project on platforms like Kickstarter.
UGC :
- 15% declare having already created content for games and 62% actually use contents created by other gamers.
I hope this was interesting !
Thanks again to all those who took the time to answer our survey. If you have questions please let me know.